Seminars

A list of seminars and webinars of relevance to researchers in infectious diseases. Joining links will be updated as they are made available.

One Health Series of events 2025 - Collaborating in animal health and welfare

Date: Wednesday 29 October 2025

Time: 1 pm - 2 pm 

Location: G.01 William Dick Building, Easter Bush Campus, Midlothian

Online: Via TEAMS Password: 5Ek95Xh9

Speaker: Gerlinde Van De Walle, Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies and Roslin Institute

Host: Musa Hassan

This seminar will be led by the ‘Animal health and welfare’ cluster.

*This event is for The University of Edinburgh Staff and Students only*

Institute of Ecology & Evolution Wednesday seminar series - Investigating fine-scale recombination rate variation in Chlamydomonas

Date: Wednesday 29 October 2025

Time: 2.10 pm

Location: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs, Kings Buildings campus

Online: Via ZOOM. Password: IEESem22

Speaker: Rob Ness, University of Toronto, Mississauga

Host: Jarrod Hadfield 

Centre of African Studies - Exploring the social determinants of malaria in Uganda: the role of livelihoods

Date: Wednesday 29 October 2025

Time: 4pm - 5:30pm

Location: Seminar Room 2, Chrystal Macmillan Building, Ground Floor, 15a George Square

Speaker: Dr Kevin Deane, Senior Lecturer in Economics, The Open University

Host: Dr Ian Russell, Lecturer in African Studies and International Development

Register via Eventbrite

Inaugural Lectures Professor Katrin Ottersbach and Brian Bigger - Childhood Therapies: it's all in the blood

Date: Thursday 30 October 2025

Time: 5 pm - 6.30 pm Lectures

           6.30 - 7.30 pm drinks reception

Location: Wellcome Auditorium, QMRI, Edinburgh BioQuarter

Speakers: Professor Katrin Ottersbach – Personal Chair of Developmental Haematology, Institute of Regeneration and Repair

                  Professor Brian Bigger – Chair in Advanced Therapeutics, Institute of Regeneration and Repair

Registration: Via Eventbrite          

Host: The College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine

One Health Series of events 2025 - Art Exhibition: Aesthetics of One Health

Date: Monday 3 November 2025

Time: 11.30 am - 1 pm 

Location: The atrium,  William Dick Building, Easter Bush Campus, Midlothian

Dr Ann-Christin Zuntz and Professor Lisa Boden will open an art exhibition showcasing Syrian agricultural heritage through art and music

Monday Seminar Series - From Quillworts to Shoreweed: Using non-model plants as windows into evolutionary processes

Date: Monday 3 November 2025

Time: 12 pm

Location: Daniel Rutherford, G.27, LT1

Speaker: David Wickell, University of Connecticut

Host: Bianca Ferreira, IMPS

One Health Series of events 2025 - One Health in the Clinics: Reducing environmental impact

Date: Monday 3 November 2025

Time: 1 pm - 2 pm 

Location: G.01 William Dick Building, Easter Bush Campus, Midlothian

Online: Via TEAMS Password: yE7J2mW6

Speaker: Gudrun Schoeffmann, The Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies

Rachel Nixon, The Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies

Host: Dana Grigore

This seminar will be led by the ‘Collaboration, culture and community health’ cluster.

*This event is for The University of Edinburgh Staff and Students only*

The Edinburgh Virology Seminar series - Tumours and tremors: oncogenic and neurotropic viruses of sheep

Date: Monday 3 November 2025

Time: 1 pm

Location: the Roslin Institute Basement seminar room, Easter Bush Campus, Midlothian

Online: Via TEAMS. Password: 24bS239G

Speaker: David Griffiths, Moredun Research Institute

One Health Series of events 2025 - One Health Policy Practice and Plans

Date: Tuesday 4 November 2025

Time: 1 pm - 2 pm 

Location: G.01 William Dick Building, Easter Bush Campus, Midlothian

Online: Via TEAMS Password: g4Gq7Ad7

Speakers: Katie Adam, Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Security,

Aoife Behan, Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Systems

Geoff Simm, Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Systems

This seminar will be led by the ‘Collaboration, culture and community health’ cluster.

*This event is for The University of Edinburgh Staff and Students only*

One Health Series of events 2025 - One Health in the Clinics: Antibiotic resistance and prescribing

Date: Wednesday 5 November 2025

Time: 1 pm - 2 pm 

Location: G.01 William Dick Building, Easter Bush Campus, Midlothian

Online: Via TEAMS Password: KJ6xT93v

Speaker: Jeanne Dennehy, The Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies

                Dr Tim Nuttall, The Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies

Host: Rosie Herrington

This is a ‘Collaboration, culture and community health’ cluster seminar.

*This event is for The University of Edinburgh Staff and Students only*

Institute of Immunology and Infection Internal Seminar - Understanding signalling pathways that underpin malaria transmission

Date: Wednesday 5 November 2025

Time: 1 pm

Location: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs, Kings Buildings campus

Online: Via ZOOM Password: IIIRsem24

Speaker: Nisha Philip, IIIR, University of Edinburgh

Institute of Ecology & Evolution Seminar - Sociality , ageing and menopause in toothed whales and beyond

Date: Wednesday 5 November 2025

Time: 2.10 pm

Location: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs, Kings Buildings campus

Online: Via ZOOM. Password: IEESem22

Speaker: Sam Ellis, University of Exeter

Hosts: Matthew Silk

The Institute of Cell Biology Seminar - Spatial organisation and dynamics of genome replication: from forks to foci

Date: Tuesday 11 November 2025

Time: 12 pm

Location: Michael Swann Building, Room  7.20, King's BUilding's Campus

Speaker: Prof. Cristina Cardoso, Technische Universität Darmstadt

Host: Sara Buonomo, ICB

One Health Series of events 2025 - The University’s Race Review – Lessons for a One Health Campus

Date: Tuesday 11 November 2025

Time: 1 pm - 2 pm 

Location: G.022 Auditorium, the Roslin Institute, Easter Bush Campus, Midlothian

Online: Via TEAMS Password: yE7J2mW6

Speaker: Dr Omolabake Fakunle - Chancellor’s Fellow and Senior Lecturer at the Moray House School of Education and Sport

Host: Professor Lisa Boden - Head of the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies and Dean of Veterinary Medicine

*This event is for The University of Edinburgh Staff and Students only*

Institute of Immunology and Infection Seminar - Delineating mechanisms of immune tailoring at the oral barrier

Date: Wednesday 12 November 2025

Time: 1 pm

Location: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs, Kings Buildings campus

Online: Via ZOOM. Password: IIIRsem24

Speaker: Joanne Konkel, University of Manchester

Hosts: Andrew MacDonald

Institute of Ecology & Evolution seminar series - Molecular Mechanisms and Evolutionary Dynamics of X-linked Meiotic Drive in Drosophila simulans

Date: Wednesday 12 November 2025

Time: 2.10 pm

Location: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs, Kings Buildings campus

Online: Via ZOOM. Password: IEESem22

Speaker: Cécile Courret, Université Paris-Saclay

Host: Laura Ross

One Health Series of events 2025 - Bench, Barn and Bedside: One Health Animal Bioscience for Animals and Humans

Date: Thursday 13 November 2025

Time: 1 pm - 2 pm 

Location: G.01 William Dick Building, Easter Bush Campus, Midlothian

Online: Via TEAMS Password: E8co7Zj3

Speakers: Jacqueline Smith, Joe Rainger and Nick Wade

This event will be led by the 'Animal biosciences, agriculture and aquaculture' cluster.

*This event is for The University of Edinburgh Staff and Students only*

Hosts: Megan Davey, Simon Lillico and Smaragda Tsairidou

Edinburgh Immunology Group seminar series: Seasons of Immunology Autumn Session

Date: Thursday 13 November 2025

Time: 1.30 pm to 5pm

Location: Seminar room 1.05 in IRR South, 5 Little France Drive, EH16 4UU

Speakers: 

One Health Series of events keynote 2025 - Towards making One Health impactful

Date: Friday 14 November 2025

Time: 12.45 pm - 2 pm 

Location: G.022, Roslin Auditorium, the Roslin Institute, Easter Bush Campus, Midlothian

Keynote Speaker: Professor Tony Holohan

  • 12:45pm - Registration opens in the Roslin Institute Atrium.
  • 1:10pm-2:00pm - Keynote with Professor Tony Holohan.
  • 2:00pm - Further discussion with Professor Holohan will be welcome after the keynote.

Registration is required to attend this keynote. This is an in-person event.

Monday Seminar Series - The Cryo FIB-SEM facility at UoE - What can it do for you?

Date: Monday 17 November 2025

Time: 12 pm

Location: Daniel Rutherford, G.27, LT1

Speaker: Fraser Laidlaw, Institute for Condensed Matter Physics and Complex Systems,UoE

Host: Louise Horsfall, IQB3

Centre for Inflammation Research Seminar - MAPS technology and its use in vaccine development

Date: Wednesday 19 November 2025

Time: 12 pm to 1pm

Location: Seminar room 1.05 in IRR South, 5 Little France Drive, EH16 4UU

Speaker:  Dr Yingjie Lu, Research Associate, Division of Infectious Diseases, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Host: Professor Debby Bogaert

Institute of Ecology & Evolution Wednesday seminar series - Integrating ecological and historical data into population genetic inferences: from Mo'orea fishes to Mascarene birds

Date: Wednesday 19 November 2025

Time: 2.10 pm

Location: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs, Kings Buildings campus

Online: Via ZOOM.  Password: IEESem22

Speaker: Stefano Mona, Université PSL, Paris

Host: Simon Martin

Monday Seminar Series

Date: Monday 24 November 2025

Time: 12 pm

Location: Daniel Rutherford, G.27, LT1

Speaker: Prof. Matt Neale, University of Sussex

Host: Adele Marston, ICB

Institute of Ecology & Evolution Wednesday seminar series - TBA

Date: Wednesday 26 November 2025

Time: 2.10 pm

Location: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs, Kings Buildings campus

Online: Via ZOOM. Password: IEESem22

Speaker: Sean Stankowski, University of Sussex

Host: Konrad Lohse

Institute of Immunology and Infection Seminar - The sex lives of malaria parasites

Date: Thursday 27 November 2025

Time: 1 pm

Location: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs, Kings Buildings campus

Online: Via ZOOM. Password: IIIRsem24

Speaker: Arthus Talman, Wellcome Sanger Institute

Host: Various

Monday Seminar Series - Shuffling the deck: How chromosomes pair and recombine in meiosis

Date: Monday 1 December 2025

Time: 12 pm

Location: Daniel Rutherford, G.27, LT1

Speaker: Dr Simone Köhler - EMBL, Barcelona

Host: Dhanya Cheerambathur, ICB

Institute of Immunology and Infection Seminar - protozoan - crypto genetic screens

Date: Wednesday 3 December 2025

Time: 1 pm

Location: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs, Kings Buildings campus

Online: Via ZOOM Password: IIIRsem24

Speaker: Bishara Marzook, The Francis Crick Institute

Host: Andrew Maclean

Easter Bush Seminar Series - Transforming the Debate about livestock systems transformation

Date: Wednesday 3 December 2025

Time: 1.30 pm

Location: the Roslin Auditorium, the Roslin Institute, Easter Bush, Midlothian, EH25 9RG

Speaker: Dominic Moran GAAFS, TRADE

Institute of Ecology & Evolution Wednesday seminar series - TBA

Date: Wednesday 3 December 2025

Time: 2.10 pm

Location: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs, Kings Buildings campus

Online: Via ZOOM. Password: IEESem22

Speaker: Nelly Olova, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Edinburgh

Host: Internal

Edinburgh Infectious Diseases Winter Lecture 2025 - Fragments of a life in HIV research

Date: Thursday 4 December 2025

Time: 5.30 - 6.30 pm (Closing drinks reception from 6.30 pm)

Location: Anatomy Lecture Theatre, Old Medical School, Teviot Doorway 3 Edinburgh EH8 9AG

Speaker: Prof Graham Hart, University College London

Registration: Please register to attend on Eventbrite

Host: Edinburgh Infectious Diseases

Institute of Immunology and Infection Seminar - Protozoan diseases of cattle

Date: Wednesday 10 December 2025

Time: 1 pm

Location: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs, Kings Buildings campus

Online: Via ZOOM. Password: IIIRsem24

Speaker: Liam Morrison, the Roslin Institute, Easter Bush, Midlothian

Hosts: Achim Schnaufer/K Matthews

Institute of Ecology & Evolution Wednesday seminar series - TBA

Date: Wednesday 14 January 2026

Time: 2.10 pm

Location: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs, Kings Buildings campus

Online: Via ZOOM. Password: IEESem22

Speaker: Simon Boitard, CBGP Montpellier

Host: Matthew Hartfield

Edinburgh Immunology Group seminar series: Seasons of Immunology Winter Session

Date: Thursday 22 January 2026

Time: 1.30 pm to 5pm

Location: Seminar room 1.05 in IRR South, 5 Little France Drive, EH16 4UU

Speakers: 

Institute of Ecology & Evolution Wednesday seminar series - TBA

Date: Wednesday 1 April 2026

Time: 2.10 pm

Location: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs, Kings Buildings campus

Online: Via ZOOM. Password: IEESem22

Speaker: Aurora Ruiz-Herrera, UAB Barcelona

Host: Simon Martin

Edinburgh Immunology Group seminar series: Seasons of Immunology Spring Session

Date: Thursday 30 April 2026

Time: 1.30 pm to 5pm

Location: Seminar room 1.05 in IRR South, 5 Little France Drive, EH16 4UU

Speakers: 

Edinburgh Immunology Group seminar series: Seasons of Immunology Summer Session

Date: Thursday 11 June 2026

Time: 1.30 pm to 5pm

Location: Seminar room 1.05 in IRR South, 5 Little France Drive, EH16 4UU

Speakers: